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" My hope is that the music will serve as a metaphor for the actions taken by the inhabitants of this wonderful planet as a call for world harmony on all levels. "

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" The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the human spirit. Because in jazz we share, we listen to each other, we respect each other, we are creating in the moment. At our best, we're non-judgmental. "

Herbie Hancock

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" The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way. "

" We need to put into practice the idea of embracing other cultures. We need to be shaping the kind of world we want to live in instead of waiting for someone else or some other entities to do it for us. "

" I think people have learned that Herbie Hancock can be defined as someone that you won't be able to figure out what he's going to do next. The sky is the limit as far as I'm concerned. "

" One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear them talking, my mouth was open. They understand each other perfectly, and they make these leaps and jumps because they don't have to explain anything. "

" My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit' was the beginning of kind of a new era for the whole hip-hop movement. "

" I've always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and clocks apart, and there's little screws, and a little this and that, and I found out if I dropped one of them, that thing ain't gonna work. "

" I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music. "

" I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I have to depend on being in the moment and depending on my instincts. "

Herbie Hancock

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" Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me. "

Herbie Hancock

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" Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around. "

" The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom. "

" Being vulnerable is allowing yourself to trust. That's hard for a lot of people to do. They feel a lot more secure if they kind of put walls around themselves. Then they don't have to trust anybody but themselves. "

" One of the most important functions of jazz has been to encourage a hope for freedom, for people living in situations of intolerance or struggle. "

" I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music. "

Herbie Hancock

Approach

Jazz

" The music becomes something that is its own entity. "

" I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things. "

" I think I was supposed to play jazz. "

" I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being. "

Herbie Hancock

Being

Human Being

" It's easy to get sidetracked with technology, and that is the danger, but ultimately you have to see what works with the music and what doesn't. In a lot of cases, less is more. In most cases, less is more. "

Herbie Hancock

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" One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing. "

" Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music. "

" I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn. "

" As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in. So, I'm concerned about peace. I'm concerned about - about man's inhumanity to man. I'm concerned about the environment. "

" Music happens to be an art form that transcends language. "

" In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered. "

" The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique. "

" Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill. "

" Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music. "

" I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. That's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now I look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being. "

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